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Hello everyone

Hello everyone ! First I want to say that i am not a native english speaker so i might do some mistakes when i wrote posts.
I noted in my profile that i am smoke free for 3 days. The truth is that really they can be 6 days but at day 3 i slipped and smoked half of a cigarette so i count them as three days.
I had have some beliefs about quitting smoking but they have really changed since i started quitting. For example I thought that if I notice when i have the biggest cravings of the day on the next day they will be at the same time range but that is a one big delusion.  Every day is so different. Sometimes all day i don't need physically to smoke but when the night falls my cravings become huge. Sometimes through the day is really hard and at night is less easier. I say at night because since i started  quitting i have trouble sleeping. So i fall asleep really late.
I forgot to tell you all that i am not quitting cold turkey. I am quitting with the help of a medication called tabex. It's produced in my county and some several others but in this site it's not listed anywhere. Anywhay the program for quitting is towards it's end and after just a few days i will stop taking the medication and i will be on my own so i am really afraid of this day !
That's all i can think of now :)
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Hello everyone

Thank you,guys :) It's nice to see that people here are so kind and jovial. :)
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Hello everyone

Actually the medication was really helpful. I didn't expect that. It's main ingredient is cytisine  and when i started taking it I read online what is this substance. It turned out that it's structure is almost the same as this of nicotine but it differs from it with one molecule. So i think the idea of creating this medication and including cytisine is to delude the body that it's taking nicotine. So the dosage  decreases gradually in 25 days until the 26th day when you stop taking it. :) I hope i explained it well. :)
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Sleeping problems

Hello everyone. 

3 days ago i stopped my nicotine replacement therapy and i was feeling pretty well during the day. I almost didn't have any cravings and i was so happy about it. But last night I woke up and had an enourmous craving. It was like it started in my dream and the problem is I can't really describe it to you but i will try. I felt like i had a panic attack or a nervous breakdown. It was really scary. I felt like I am on the edge. This lasted maybe 1 hour then I got out of bed,walked to the other room and then back to bed and fell asleep. But the problem is that i haven't experienced anything similar in my whole life. Has anyone of you experienced something like that ? Is this normal ? I thought that things like these may happen but when i am awake during the day not while i am asleep.....


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How long did it take for you to feel better?

I start this discussion because I didn't find a search engine on the site and can't find if there is a topic like that.

So I am wondering how long did it take for you to feel better after quitting smoking? I know you will say that it is different for everyone but if more people share this in here I think a small statistics can be done. And even if you think that it is impossible to make statistics from this amount of people I think it still will be helpful because it will make people believe and think positively about the future. :) So share with me ? 

How long until you felt better? ( I mean just normal,like nothing happened)

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11 years ago 0 12 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
How long did it take for you to feel better?

Original Post by: Josie, Health Educator
petya,
 
The search feature is in the forums area, so take a look there and let us know if you can't find it.  This is always a great topic to share with one another as we can all learn from the experiences of others.
 
Please do share with us and post often!
 
 
Josie, Health Educator
Thank you ! :) And I am sorry that i didn't see it,maybe because it wasn't on it's usual spot. I have no idea. Anyway if someone wants to reply to the topic I will appreciate it.
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How long did it take for you to feel better?

Working on it that was really interesting but don't you feel afraid that you'll never reach this state of mind of a nonsmoker ? This sounds to me like a life full of torture... Yes maybe it gave some kind of lessons that's nice,i think of smoking in a different way also but nevertheless it still sucks this thought.

Actually I changed my way of thinking about smoking when I read Allen Carr's book " Easy way to stop smoking". I 've heard that many people stopped smoking only after reading it. I read it twice and I can say that changed smoking a little for me but not enough to stop smoking "easy". I don't know if I have mentioned until now but I smoked only 5 years in my whole life and sometimes when i read some statistics for example I seem to have been strongly addicted.... I guess this doesn't depend on the time through which you were a smoker.

In fact I am not sure if I am realistic but my dream is to wake up one day and never think of cigarettes. And if someone offers me a cigarette and I even smoke one,this event to be irrelevant and when I smoke it not to feel any good.... Maybe I want so much but honestly i've heard people who were exsmokers to say things like those I just described....so either they are lying or it is possible to be an exsmoker who feels like a person who never smoked in their whole life.

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How long did it take for you to feel better?

Hey, I just got home and  was a little upset because I had to be  in a crowd that was not very supportive about my quitting. So i decided to log in and just read your posts. Thank you very much,they really gave me hope :) I see why you guys are so happy to be here and why this helped you so much :)))))  
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How long did it take for you to feel better?

I didn't open a new topic and decided to post my question here.  Today I was wondering  if it is normal to feel my throat dry and tight when I have  cravings ?   

When I think about it always when I was a smoker and craved a cigarette my throat felt that way but  not so strong as I feel it when i am not smoking and quitting. So I asked some friends around me who are still smoking what do they feel when they need a cigarette and all of them told me that they just feel nervous and nothing more. So I am wondering is that normal ? Does this happened to somebody else during they were smokers or after they quit ?